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Black Cards: Kirk?by entertained RRU by livestreaming ___. Hey guys, Alcom's complaining about ___ again... ___ was banned from RRU for ___. (this is a slight variation on an existing card) Today, Kirk?by wrote a rant about ___. LEGO Universe 2 will be released when ___ stops ___. In his latest tumblr post, Kirk?by is dressed up as ___. White Cards: Alcom Jamesster McJobless ROBLOX Rock Raiders United That Unreleased Bionicle Game The obligatory kolhii match A file format that even Kirk?by couldn't decipher Kirk?by's diverse wardrobe Standing barefoot on a LEGO brick The brain of a giant robot Kirk?by's file-format rant A badly-made LEGO Universe fangame Badly made LEGO Universe fangames LegoOrange LegoBadger Unity Game Engine Disturbing pregnant unikitty fanart LEGO Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants Terminal 7 Brain Cancer Minecraft LEGO Minecraft ORANGE TRANSPARENT CHAINSAWS A sound clip of Kirk?by saying "what?" LEGO Island Nimbus Station Tweaks: I'd rather be ___ than play the PS1 version of Rock Raiders.

Hello there! I'm one of the original developers of LSR, and I found this site while looking for a way to get the game running on my PC again. Before I post my question, let me say I'm really chuffed to see so much enthusiasm for this old game. I've seen some really cool stuff on this forum. I'll happily chime in on some of the posts with some development trivia. I should also have some development artwork lying around which I'm guessing will interest you too. Anyway, I'm trying to get the game to run on Windows 7, 64-bit. I saw another thread about getting it to run on Windows 7, and I followed the instructions there, but still no luck. I've not been able to run the installer properly. After clicking the install button, the buttons go grey and nothing happens after that. So I tried extracting the cab files using the Universal Extractor, and so I've got _msr.exe and all the rest. When I ran that, I received an error about MOTO.rtb missing from c:\windows\system32. After copying the file there (and rebooting), I no longer get the error. However, when starting _msr.exe now, I get the splash screen, then a black screen, and then the game crashes and I'm back in Windows. I'd be very grateful if you can help me out, and I can get the game running again. Many thanks in advance. KG

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Hi Jamesster, thanks for your post. The /FROMLAUNCHER worked (in ALLCAPS only, by the way), but I managed to break the game by trying to set the resolution to 800x600. Oops. Now the game runs, but it doesn't display anything. I can hear the sound of the intro video playing, and I see a minimized icon in my tray. Clicking it shown a black screen for a moment, and then it returns to Windows. Is there any way to revert back to 640x480 outside of the game, like editing or deleting a config file? (I suppose I could try a "re-install", although technically I didn't install the game. The only file I saw changing was MOTO.rtb, but reverting that to an earlier version didn't help). Also, while I had the game running, it ran in what I guess was Danish. If I can get the game running again, how can I change that? >In response to your questions: Yes, I worked on Loco too. I can tell you a few things about the LSR PS1 version, but I'll save that for a separate post/thread if you don't mind. I've started looking through my old files and found a few fun things already. Stay tuned.

Some of you may already know from my posts in the "Game Archive Extracting (Research and Tools)" topic that I was working on scripts that would allow to view and extact the models and textures from Bionicle: the Game. Well, I think developed them to the point where I can make a public release. The model script became quite complicated with all those "Choose the model" things and the way I made the whole choosing process is not the best, but I think it's bearable. You can find the scripts here: https://mega.co.nz/#F!go8SGQZC!Xk3MTMLc-AlIAUYI3mT3Hg I've explained how to use them in the Readme file included in the folder above. Model script is currently v0.1 beta Texture script is currently v1.0 Here is a research I did on the game's resources: If you have any issues with the scripts - feel free to ask me . Oh, and also I don't remember if the models of turaga Matau, Onewa and Whenua were in extras, but I can't find them anywhere. The same goes for Onu matoran. If you happen to find them or any other interesting model/texture - please be sure to post it there .

This seems to have gone mostly under the radar... I don't see any proper press releases, just brief mentions in a couple of recent articles. http://events.newegg.com/ces2015/intels-realsense-technology-will-make-you-a-star/ http://www.mediamarkt.nl/mcs/shop/intel-realsense.html Ran through Google Translate it reads: http://www.fastcompany.com/3040223/when-it-clicks-it-clicks

You all know what I'm talking about. That logic defying enigma of the Adventurers theme, when Baron von Barron became Sam Sinister, and Sam Sinister vanished into the ether, his only subsequent appearances defaulting to his German name Slyboots. It's become more or less the punchline to the joke of the Baron's many names, which in itself was a symptom of LEGO's problem with leaving character names and specific story details up to each individual region at the time. It's tempting to chalk it up to some error on LEGO's part, but that's proven impossible thanks to ">this infuriatingly tantalizing MANIA Magazine page that bills the character "Sam Sinister (aka Baron von Barron). So the question is, why the heck did LEGO assign the name to another character? And why did that character later assume the dress of the original? I think I may have an answer. But first of all, to avoid things getting confusing really fast, I'm going to assign identifiers to each minifig that is pertinent to this discussion. This guy will heretofore be referred to as fig A, this guy is fig B and this guy is fig C. And now, for absolute clarity, here's a rundown of the known names that have been assigned to each figure: FIGURE A 1998: Baron von Barron, Evil Eye, Mr. Hates, Ulrich Unhand 2000: Sam Sinister, Sam Sanister, Alex Gluipstra FIGURE B 1998: Sam Sinister, Lizard Boots, Slyboots FIGURE C 2003: Lord Sam Sinister This theory hinges on one major assumption: That there was a massive miscommunication in 1998 regarding the identities of the Adventurers figures. I do not believe that this is too far-fetched - continuity and consistency were the furthest things from LEGO's minds at the point, and the names and personalities of figures were by and large only a small part of what they were doing - selling toys. Look at the awful confusion of Insectiods and UFO characters that we see all over the place - it is apparent that LEGO was not devoting too much energy to fig identity at the time. So what would this massive miscommunication be, then? It's comprised of a few parts. At the core of it, this theory assumes that in the original story treatment for Adventurers, Figure B is designated the 'big bad' while Figure A is designated his sidekick or hired help. This idea may seem unintuitive to us as fans long trained to think of Figure A as the definitive villain of Adventurers, but bear with me - this will make more sense as it goes along. In fact, we know with full certainty that the original US continuity did, in fact, have Figure B as the big bad - it just chose to shine more of the spotlight on Figure A anyway. Figure A is shown as the brutish and forward muscle of the team, with Figure B as the sneaky brains. This leads us to our first major proposition - the name Sam Sinister was always originally intended for Figure A, and the name Baron von Barron was originally reserved for Figure B. "Baron von Baron," while being distinctly tongue-in-cheek, is a name that carries overtones of dignity and aristocracy. In that regard, it is much more applicable to the tux-and-tophat clad Figure B, as opposed to Figure A, who is more rough-and-ready with proper desert gear. Now we turn our attention to the other continuities. The stories in the UK and Germany overlap almost entirely, with Figure A being the villain leader and Figure B being his hired help, a retired boxing champion. When was the last time someone said 'boxing champion' and you imagined a man in a tuxedo and spectacles? Contrast that with the powerful Figure A, with battle wounds and a silhouette made more powerful by bulking his shoulders with epaulettes. Figure A is also framed as the brute of the two in the US continuity. And so I propose that in the UK/Germany continuities, the names of Figure A and Figure B were not switched, but their identities were. If we go so far as to assume all of the above is true, things begin to fall into place. In 2000, with the advent of the Dino Island line, LEGO wants to bring back Figure A as the antagonist. Rather than pursue their now two-year-old blunder in naming him Baron von Barron, they use his proper, intended name and leave a note in MANIA magazine for any readers that might remember back to the 1998 issues. This ultimately creates a problem for third-party story developers like ATD when they worked on LEGO Racers - Figure B had had a name, but now it had been taken away from him. The solution, then, would be to look at other names that had been used for that figure and select one, (Slyboots). So a few years pass and LEGO gears up to reboot Adventurers as Orient Expedition. They want to bring back the original big bad, Figure B, as the antagonist, but they run into a problem: Figure A's presence in the Dino Island theme, and later the Johnny Thunder and the Adventurers animations in 2002, had solidified him as the definitive villain of the series. Bringing back Figure B wouldn't make sense to fans, especially considering the confusion with his name that would already have been apparent. So they compromised: use Figure A, but give him Figure B's garb to channel some of that energy. A nice idea on paper, maybe, but it's given people like us some serious headaches as we wonder what the heck is going on. And so the Sam Sinister switcheroo was complete, and two Sams became one.

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Yes, everyone's been whitelisted except a small few who I have contacted (they changed their usernames). To accommodate everyone in 'MURICA, would people like me to push forward the opening time to 7pm or 8pm? Or should I leave it at 6pm?

Oh yeah, I remember hearing about this VR thingy nearer the toy fair itself, mainly because it provided us with one of the finest images from the event: Other than that, it's pretty interesting to see TLG get back into the VR game after that Project Darwin stuff back in the 90's. I wonder if we'll see more of this in the future from TLG?

Unfortunately I'm unable to help in this myself (I don't have a public Facebook account), but I do wish all the best to your sister. That said, I feel it's a little immoral to decide which student gets $2,000 by who can promote a group's Facebook page the most.

Noticed this URL in the videos... http://legomen.de/ It's amazing I haven't seen this thrown around in online debates about LEGO and gender stereotyping yet. It's almost hilarious how "manly" it's trying to be.

1000 lines have been reached in the post! =D Recent additions have been Fireworks, Terrain, and few other things that was too long ago to remember that I secretly added, plus some other misc changes have also been done. As a milestone, have a fun little video I made on my recent experimenting with the Terrain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BspitN8JFak